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Future of Bishopsgate goods yard yet to be decided
The High Court is to rehear a dispute over the development of an historic goods yard in London’s Bishopsgate. A local resident has brought a second judicial review challenge in…
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Court dismisses illegal immigrant’s tenancy succession claim
A Tanzanian who is facing deportation has failed in a tenancy succession dispute in which he sought to block a local authority’s moves to take possession of the home of…
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Homeless tenants not entitled to choose accommodation
The Court of Appeal has backed a decision by Brent London Borough Council to offer a homeless woman a tenancy of a flat in Brondesbury Park, NW6, rather than of…
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Lincolnshire right-of-way dispute moves to Appeal Court
The Court of Appeal is to hear a dispute over a right of way between plots of land on the site of a former village farmyard, known as Home Farm,…
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Asha Foundation fails in bid for lottery funding
A London-based multi-faith foundation, which hopes to construct a multicultural community centre using £10m of lottery money, has failed in its final attempt to appeal the Millennium Commission’s refusal of…
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No appeal in antisocial behaviour ruling
The House of Lords has refused to allow a housing association permission to appeal a decision relating to the antisocial behaviour of one of its ex-tenants.
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House of Lords gives permission for capital gains tax appeal
The vendors of a £5m development site at Bridge Farm, Hook, Hampshire, who lost a tax liability dispute with the Inland Revenue, have been given permission to appeal by the…
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High Court clarifies burden of proof over change of use
The onus of proof in disputes over whether property is being put to a different use to that for which planning consent was originally granted, has been clarified by the…
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Floating nightclub found to be a rateable property
Former drive-on drive-off ferry, the Tuxedo Royale, which, from 1989 to 1999, was berthed on the River Tyne at Hillgate Quay, Gateshead, and used as a nightclub, restaurant and discotheque,…
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DJ Freeman’s Vivien King to join Bond Pearce
Following almost a year of discussions, retail law firm Bond Pearce has announced that the former head of DJ Freeman’s property litigation team, Vivien King, will join the firm in…
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Newtown Common easement dispute moves to House of Lords
A test-case challenge by residents living near Newtown Common in Newbury, Berkshire, to moves by Bakewell Management Ltd (BML), to charge them for the right to drive over the common…
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Edison succeeds in long-running double-ratings case
The House of Lords has followed the Court of Appeal and the High Court in backing a double rating assessment of the occupants of two power stations, ruling that the…